Last First Kiss {HP Next Generation}

Chapter Twelve

"Oh Weasley," Henry said as he entered the Hospital Wing to find Hope sitting on one of the beds with her arm propped up as the Madam Liddel tended to her broken elbow. 

Hope glanced over in his direction and grinned. "What?"

"What do I always tell you before you go out onto the pitch?"

"Go for the nose?"

"N-...well yes, that but what else?"

"Relax, Father Henry," Hope snorted. "I wasn't planning on getting hurt...it just managed to happen. I guess it was pay back for clocking Nott in the face."

"Yeah, thanks for that by the way." The boy called out from where he was sitting at the end of the Hospital Wing, his nose fixed but waiting for the bruising and swelling to go down.

"I wasn't aiming for your face, if it makes you feel any better!" Hope told him before turning her attention back to Henry. "So let me tell you, they might call this the funny bone, but there is nothing funny about hitting it."

"Are you okay, though?" Henry asked with slight worry to his tone.

"Oh she'll be fine." Madam Liddel answered with a kind smile. "This isn't the worse quidditch injury I've seen since I've started working here. Be thankful there wasn't any bone sticking out of the skin, those are usually quite the sight to see."

"Ew." The two teens said together.

"Ew indeed. But morbidly fascinating." The blonde haired woman said with a dazed look in her blue eyes before she shrugged and walked off.

"Odd one, she is. I say it every year."

"You also say you're going to turn in your homework on time, but that does't make it true now does it?" Hope teased him.

"Now when I say that, I'm stating it as a goal not a fact."

"Sure, sure."

"Is this the thanks I get for coming to see you in the Hospital Wing?"

"Oh I'm sorry, let me switch it up for you..." Hope cleared her throat obnoxiously loud. "OH HENRY!-"

"Stop, don't do that!"

She gave a wicked grin before standing up from the bed and moving her arm around a bit. But it turned into Hope doing a strange dance in the middle of the Hospital Wing.

"What is she doing?" the Nott boy questioned eyeing the girl as he walked over.

"I don't know..and I don't ask anymore because the answer is never something you expect and it just leaves you with more questions." Henry told him.

"Uh...okay."

"Hey come on Henry, let's make like a banana and split!" Hope called to him as she left towards the exit.

Henry turned to the other boy and smiled. "If you would excuse me.." He turned in the direction where Hope was standing and waiting. " IT'S MAKE LIKE A TREE AND LEAVE!"

The two best friends left the hospital wing leaving Madam Liddel to tend to the other boy.

"If you ever wondered what soulmates look like..that was a perfect example." The nurse chuckled to herself.

"Does it hurt still?" Henry asked Hope as the two were sitting in the common room later on that evening. Hope was staring into the fire before she turned her attention to him.

"Does what hurt?"

"Your elbow, Hope. Merlin.."

"Oh no..it just needed a little elbow grease and it's as good as-" She received a pillow to her face cutting her off. "Ow. That was uncalled for."

"Oh really? How about this?" He continued to hit her lightly with the throw pillow until she tried to escape him by climbing over the back of the sofa. However, her unbalanced act caused her to fall off and land on the floor.

"Hope!" Henry quickly dropped the pillow and looked over the back of the sofa. 'Are you okay?"

"Well, if I was experiencing any pain in my elbow, I am completely distracted by the aching going on in my head right now."

"Want me to help you up?" he offered.

"Nope. I'm just going to lay here for awhile. At least, until the room stops spinning."

"Want a pillow?"

"No..but I'm kinda hungry. Throw down a snack or something."

"I have some leftover chocolate in my room if you want to wait here and-"

"You had chocolate in your room this entire time and you didn't tell me?" Hope was suddenly on her feet in seconds. "You're holding out on me, Black! What kind of friend are you?"

"Wait..wait! That's my stash. Hope, don't you go up those stairs...wa...don't you go in my room!" Henry stood up and headed up the stairs after her. "Don't you eat all of it!"

"Oh I could just smoosh those two together and squeeze them." Nixie smiled from the Professor's table one morning as she sat in between Sirius and Remus.

The two men looked over at her with confused expressions until she turned to look at them.

"What?"

"What are you talking about?" Sirius asked.

"And who are you talking about?" Remus questioned.

"Henry and Hope, obviously.' Nixie said.

"Why do you want to smoosh them together?" Remus looked concerned for Nixie's mental state.

She rolled her eyes. "Because they're adorable together...look at them. Henry's been carrying Hope's books and her bag for the whole week, even though her elbow is fully healed and she has another arm. He's insisted on it...it's ...it's too precious, I'm practically melting in my seat right now."

"Whoa..whoa...whoa...time out." Remus said throwing up the T-sign. "Are you actually suggesting..that Hope and...Henry...my granddaughter and your son...what...no."

Remus chuckled and shook his head."No way."

"Why is that such a far fetched idea...Moony?" Sirius questioned suddenly.

"Yeah, do you have a problem with it?" Nixie narrowed her eyes at the man.

"No, I didn't say that!"

"Well good." Nixie said before turning her attention back to where her son was sitting.

"Oh no...but that means..." Sirius groaned suddenly. "Henry...and the spawn of Lupin and Weasley..."

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Remus cried out.

"What do you suppose they're arguing about over there?" Hope asked looking to where her grandfather was standing up as well as Sirius.

'I dunno...they both probably need a nap." Henry snorted.

"Oooh a nap sounds so good right now."

"Hope, we have class in like ten minutes."

"Or do we?"